Miguel Delaney
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Yeah, I suppose even zooming out, giving you a start with the Iran issue, I've been thinking about this a lot, especially because we faced a lot of, and this is something that actually quite aggravates me, there's been a lot of discussion and criticism, oh, the Western media aren't talking about USA in the way they're talking about Qatar.
I mean, that's nonsense.
Personally, me, among many of my colleagues who didn't say it, I've been talking about this for a long time, so many of the various issues.
A lot of people are only aware of the issues of this World Cup because they have been covered, not least the issues around visas.
But also, it is different.
I mean...
This World Cup has a lot of issues, but it doesn't have a central fundamental issue like that with Qatar, which is around migrant labor that the laborers themselves have called slave labor.
That World Cup couldn't have been held without directly contributing to human suffering.
And you can get into all the debates about the kind of the exact numbers.
Qatar didn't even record the numbers.
This World Cup doesn't directly have an issue like that, but it has, I would say, many more disparate issues.
Now, one of them, of course, is, as I said, it's the precedent and there are, you have to say, if it was a different country, there would have been much more calls for boycotts or calls for the USA to be stripped in that it's the first time that a host has attacked, bombed, engaged in conflict with a participating nation.
I mean, that's,
A remarkable precedent.
And it also kind of points to a shift here as well, because generally with World Cups, obviously it's like it's part of the build of 20 tournaments.
All of the issues around the country get discussed and all the issues related to World Cups get discussed.
Foreign policy hasn't generally been a part of that, maybe for obvious reasons because of Western hegemony, whatever you want to describe.
But even foreign policy with Qatar wasn't discussed that much.
That's something that has shifted over recent years, not least because of how Russia has been banned from this very tournament.
So it's changed the dynamic.
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